{{short description|Chinese writer}} '''Zhang Zhuo''' ({{zh|t=張鷟|s=张𬸦|first=t}}; ca. 658 – ca. 730<ref>Victor Cunrui Xiong: ''Historical Dictionary of Medieval China''. Second edition. 2017, [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Historical_Dictionary_of_Medieval_China/jSeAEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=zhang+zhuo+730&pg=PA820&printsec=frontcover p. 820]</ref>), courtesy name '''Zhang Wencheng''' (張文成), style Fuxiuzi (浮休子), was a Chinese writer of the Tang period. He was from Shenzhou (深州; modern Shenxian 深縣, Hebei province).<ref>chinaknowledge.de: [http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Novels/chaoyeqianzai.html Chaoye qianzai 朝野僉載]</ref>
Zhang Zhuo is known as the author of the ''Chaoye qianzai'' (朝野僉載; "Record of all Matters relating to the Court and abroad"<ref>J. J. M. de Groot: ''The Religious System of China'', Vol IV. Book II On the Soul and Ancestral Worship, Part I The Soul in Philosophy and Folk-conception. 2025, [https://www.google.de/books/edition/The_Religious_system_of_China/z95BEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Record+of+all+Matters+relating+to+the+Court+and+abroad%22&pg=PA223&printsec=frontcover IV/223]</ref>), a collection of stories written in the "brush-notes" (''biji'' 筆記) style. He also authored the encyclopaedia ''Longjin fengsui pan'' (龍筋鳳髓判), and the prose narrative work ''You xianku'' (游仙窟), a noted work of ''chuanqi'' that is considered a prototype of Chinese and East Asian extended work of prose fiction.<ref>cf. [http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Terms/chuanqi.html chuanqi 傳奇 and zhiguai 志怪, tales and stories]</ref>
== Works (in selection) == The ''Hanyu da zidian'' f.e. is using his works in the following editions:<ref>''Hanyu da zidian'', bibliography, [https://archive.org/details/xu-zhong-shu-hanyu-da-zidian-1986-1989/page/n5383/mode/2up nos. 326-328]</ref>
* ''Chaoye qianzai'' 朝野佥载 (''Baoyantang mijitang'' 宝颜堂秘笈) * ''Longjin fengsui pan'' 龙筋凤髓判 (''Huhailou congshu'' 湖海楼丛书) * ''You xianku'' 游仙窟 (photographic reproduction of the Beixin shuju 北新书局 edition 1929 by the publisher Shanghai guji chubanshe 上海古籍出版社 1985)
== References == <references />
== Bibliography == * Levy, Howard S.: ''China’s First Novellette: The Dwelling of Playful Goddesses by Chang Wen-ch’eng (ca. 657-730)''. Tokyo: Dai Nippon Insatsu, 1965 * Li Xueqin, Lü Wenyu, eds.: ''Siku da cidian'' 四庫大辭典, 2 vols. Jilin daxue chubanshe, Changchun 1996 <!--vol. 2, 2138-->
== External links == {{Wikisource|zh:作者:張鷟|張鷟}} * [http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Novels/chaoyeqianzai.html Chaoye qianzai 朝野僉載] - chinaknowledge.de * [http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/longjinfengsuipan.html Longjin fengsui pan 龍筋鳳髓判] - chinaknowledge.de
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